[Cytochemical study of various enzymes of the rabbit crystalline lens epithelium].

The activity of a number of enzymes of glycolysis, tricarbonic acids, cycle, pentose phosphatase shunt and some important hydrolases, acid nucleases and adenosine triphosphate among them, was cytochemically determined in the rabbit lens epithelium. The data obtained clearly demonstrate the role the epithelium plays in energy producing processes of the lens, which are connected both with anaerobic and aerobic phases of glucose utilization and its direct oxydation, as well as with synthesis of some substances, with the transport of organic and inorganic molecules.